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How to use the word vacuum in a Sentence?

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What you don’t want is an emergency replacement of your CEO, because that could be a disaster, you don’t want to throw the company into more chaos, which could happen if there’s a vacuum at the top.

James Reda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The speaker’s letter was not him sitting in a vacuum, the speaker’s letter reflected weeks of dialogue. … Our input was translated into that letter.

Garret Graves

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re in the middle of this national identity crisis, where if you ask most people my age, really any age – what does it mean to be an American today? – you get a blank stare in response. And I think that is the vacuum at the heart of our national soul.

Vivek Ramaswamy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Of course I can’t say with certainty the connection, but things like this do not happen in a vacuum. What happened to me is definitely influenced by a toxic political culture, and it’s my opinion that the university is playing a role, we do not like to talk about racism.

Sam Joeckel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s also going to signal to other organizations, players like (militant groups) Hamas and Islamic Jihad, that there is no vacuum that they can get in and use it to promote their terror attacks. And that the old rules of the game are preserved.

Michael Milshtein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is a big step towards a complete democracy. mafiosi do not operate in a vacuum. They are inside, intertwined with a system of relationships, of complicities, without which they could not carry out their criminal activities, without which they could not remain fugitives.

Giancarlo Caselli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mafiosi do not operate in a vacuum. They are inside, intertwined with a system of relationships, of complicities, without which they could not carry out their criminal activities, without which they could not remain fugitives, they are in relationships that involve professionals, entrepreneurs, public administrators, politicians, individuals who flank their organization and form the so-called Mafia bourgeoisie, or gray zone.

Giancarlo Caselli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, there are a lot of countries out there that may not share our values, they may not share our political systems, but they are a vital battleground for us as we seek to compete with the Chinese, and if we leave a vacuum in those places, the Chinese will fill it.

Chief Richard Moore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There are so many issues at stake that I want to make clear that we can continue to lead in the region and not create a vacuum, a vacuum that is filled by China and or Russia against the interests of both Israel and the United States and many other countries.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are meeting with nine other heads of state, not just Saudi Arabia, i want to be clear we must continue to lead in the region and not leave a vacuum that will be filled by China or Russia.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There are so many issues at stake that I want to make clear that we can continue to lead in the region and not create a vacuum -- a vacuum that is filled by China and or Russia, against the interest of both Israel and the The US and many other countries.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I personally don’t advocate for a special category because I think we don’t have the facts yet, and 71% of people were making decisions in a vacuum, i think there needs to be transitional decisions made. Let’s look at how many transgender people in sports are disproportionately winning over their cisgender competitors. Is it even really a problem?

Joshua Estrin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Bottom line is that none of this travel is typically done in a vacuum - it's part of a strategic plan - or should be.

Anita McBride

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Roe wasn't decided in a vacuum ; it's part of a larger understanding of The Constitution that recognizes a right to privacy in text that doesn't expressly identify it, if there's a majority of Supreme Court justices no longer willing to recognize such a right in the context of abortion -- indeed, who believe Supreme Court should never have recognized Supreme Court -- then that calls into question those other rights, as well.

Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These shared interests revolve around countering Iran and dealing with the vacuum the US is leaving behind, the two issues are intertwined.

Ezzedine Fishere

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We find The Pacific Island nation very insulting to be branded as unfit to manage our sovereign affairs, our security approach is not done in a vacuum and not without due consideration to all our partners.

Manasseh Sogavare

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have seen videos of Russian forces moving exceptionally lethal weaponry into Ukraine, that includes cluster munitions and vacuum bombs – which are banned under the Geneva Convention.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We talked about weapons that Putin is using, weapons prohibited in the Geneva Conventions, including cluster bombs and vacuum bombs, which caused severe suffering.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They used the vacuum bomb today, the devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is large.

Oksana Markarova

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Republicans are tapping into frustrations real and imagined, but we have left a vacuum, we have no reform agenda. Our party is seen as propping up a bureaucratic status quo that many parents thought didn't perform well during the pandemic. You can't just point to Republican demagoguery about race and books and win the argument. You have to make voters a counteroffer.

Will Marshall

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have a massive nursing shortage, we have a vacuum in the double and triple digits all across the New York area.

Eric Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have never heard a child say,' I am glad you lied to me about death. I'm glad you kept information from me. I'm glad you left me out of the conversation,' children are resilient, but they need a guide to help them be resilient. It does not happen in a vacuum.

Brennan Wood

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With the U.S. embrace of great power competition, it’s ironic that the U.S. will be ceding the field in Afghanistan to the Chinese who will inevitably flow into the Afghan vacuum left by the U.S. departure. No one should have missed the explicit message sent by the Chinese in the recent warm and celebratory welcome of Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Beijing. That welcome appeared in stark contrast to the cold and confrontational reception of the American envoy, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.

Marine Gen. John Allen

added by MoWali
2 years ago

We will see in the coming period really what is going on with regards to America’s footprint in the region. I don’t think we know yet, but Afghanistan is definitely a test and to be honest it is a very worrying test, part of what we need to do is manage our region better. There is a vacuum and whenever there is a vacuum there is trouble.

Anwar Gargash

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

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